[OpenAFS] Re: obsolete volumes

[Kim Kimball]

Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
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> On Wednesday, January 31, 2007 03:44:35 PM -0800 Renata Maria Dart 
> <renata@slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
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>> Hi Jeff,
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>> Does -showsuid also imply -nowrite, or can it be used with -nowrite
>> to avoid taking the server out?
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> Yes, -showsuid also implies -nowrite.
> In general, you can always use -nowrite to run the salvager in a 
> read-only mode where it will only tell you what it would do, rather 
> than actually doing anything.  This eliminates any need to shut down 
> the fileserver; however, you only get that benefit if you run the 
> salvager by hand - the 'bos salvage' command only knows how to handle 
> a limited number of salvager arguments.
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> Remember that if you run the salvager by hand and do not use one of 
> -nowrite, -showmounts, or -showsuid, you must shut down the fileserver 
> first.  Otherwise you risk damaging volumes.
>

Isn't this true iff salvaging one or more partitions?  Salvaging a 
single volume doesn't cause 'bos salvage' to shut down the file server ...

> -- Jeff
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